Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Everyone likes talking about himself. – Hercule Poirot.”

— Agatha Christie

52. “The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”

— Agatha Christie

53. “One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”

— Agatha Christie

54. “Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?”

— Agatha Christie

55. “With method and logic one can accomplish anything.”

— Agatha Christie

56. “If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you...”

— Agatha Christie

57. “One must make one’s own mistakes.”

— Agatha Christie

58. “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

— Agatha Christie

59. “It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”

— Agatha Christie

60. “The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.”

— Agatha Christie

61. “You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

— Agatha Christie

62. “Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.”

— Agatha Christie

63. “Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”

— Agatha Christie

64. “Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.”

— Agatha Christie

65. “No,” said Miss Marple. “You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.”

— Agatha Christie

66. “Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.”

— Agatha Christie

67. “I didn’t want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.”

— Agatha Christie

68. “But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.”

— Agatha Christie

69. “Wherever there is human nature, there is drama. But – it is not always just where you think it is. Remember that.”

— Agatha Christie

70. “If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it – often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.”

— Agatha Christie

71. “An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.”

— Agatha Christie

72. “The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.”

— Agatha Christie

73. “If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.”

— Agatha Christie

74. “Oh, I’m not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it’s very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they’ve taken away everything you had in the world?”

— Agatha Christie

75. “What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.”

— Agatha Christie

76. “The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.”

— Agatha Christie

77. “With thought, all problems can be resolved.”

— Agatha Christie

78. “If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!”

— Agatha Christie

79. “Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it’s the tops.”

— Agatha Christie

80. “In my end is my beginning – that’s what people are always saying. But what does it mean?”

— Agatha Christie

81. “In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.”

— Agatha Christie

82. “Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.”

— Agatha Christie

83. “All life is a jest, Imhotep – and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.”

— Agatha Christie

84. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”

— Agatha Christie

85. “I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty – to one’s friends and one’s family and one’s caste.”

— Agatha Christie

86. “Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”

— Agatha Christie

87. “One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.”

— Agatha Christie

88. “If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.”

— Agatha Christie

89. “Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.”

— Agatha Christie

90. “I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”

— Agatha Christie

91. “Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.”

— Agatha Christie

92. “No innocent person ever has an alibi.”

— Agatha Christie

93. “But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”

— Agatha Christie

94. “Success had its penalties.”

— Agatha Christie

95. “Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.”

— Agatha Christie

96. “Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.”

— Agatha Christie

97. “Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.”

— Agatha Christie

98. “Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them.”

— Agatha Christie

99. “There was something magical about an island – the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world – an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return. He thought: “I’m leaving my ordinary life behind me.” And, smiling to himself, he began to make plans, fantastic plans for the future. He was still smiling when he walked up the rock-cut steps. In.”

— Agatha Christie

100. “Men don’t understand how their mannerisms can get on women’s nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.”

— Agatha Christie